Chapter 222

"…So, what does this have to do with my thesis material?" Kirshtalia pressed her forehead and brought back the topic that Fujimaru Ritsuka and Lancermello had already diverged into. "My topic and material should be fine, right? Is there something I missed?"

"No, I just want to tell you that there is actually ancient culture worth writing about on Haige Island." Lansemello turned his gaze away from Kirshtalia and pointed at the vortex below the Coral Palace. "And it is likely to be something that is listed as 'taboo' just like 'us' - I personally hope to collect more content in this area."

"Because the other things are too easy for us to obtain." Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged. "Now that Heaven has been forced to relax its control over Teyvat, it would be a shame for us if we don't take this opportunity to learn some forbidden knowledge. This is a world where King Gilgamesh can pollute the Grass Dragon by just mentioning the Tablet of Destiny to it."

"We had prepared several plans for pollution at the time... I didn't expect that the Grass Dragon would go crazy just with the Destiny Tablet." Lansermello spread his hands and sighed helplessly, "By the way, is there any other place Fujimaru wants to go inside Inazuma? But if you want to do a human investigation, we may not have the time."

"I heard that there is a famous shrine in Inazuma?" Fujimaru Ritsuka suggested, "I want to go and see it, and - I haven't been to a shrine in a long, long time."

"Should we walk up from the Shinto path at the foot of the mountain through the Torii Gate, or should we just find an unnoticed corner near the gate?" Lansermello shook his wand and confirmed with Fujimaru Ritsuka the landing point of the magic transmission.

"I want to go there myself." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and replied to Lansermello, "Just think of it as me making a wish for our future."

The three of them appeared on a stone road with falling cherry blossoms - Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head and looked behind him, only to see the stone road disappearing into the green grass.

"Although this is not the bottom of the mountain, you may have to consider free climbing if you walk from the bottom of the mountain." Lansemello simply explained the choice of landing point, "The road here is broken into several sections - I can't imagine how the locals of Inazuma can get here from the foot of the mountain... They don't seem to have installed an elevator."

"Anyway, let's go up and take a look first."

Before entering Chaldea, when Fujimaru Ritsuka was just an ordinary person, she would go to the shrine with her friends, or work as a shrine maiden when she had no classes. After entering Chaldea, until now, Fujimaru Ritsuka's impression of the shrine is only the content written in the database of the mysterious development in Chaldea, and the distant past mentioned in the casual conversations between the group of heroes.

"Sakura tree... but the corresponding wood is called dream tree." Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was walking in front, had already entered the Naruto Taisha Shrine, while Lansermello was still on the platform at the corner studying the species of Teyvat. "From the perspective of the name, this is really a good name - but, dream."

"What's wrong, Lord?" Kirshtalia stopped what she was doing while collecting information about the growth of other cherry trees and looked at Lansemello. "Do you want to go up and look for Ritsuka?"

"Well, let's go up and take a look."

The two entered the Naruto Grand Shrine, and the first step was to wash their hands and rinse their mouths according to etiquette. Although the Heroic Spirits in Chaldea did not quite conform to the impression of ordinary people in some aspects, they would never make mistakes in their own fields. During the time when all of Chaldea was learning new skills, the different etiquettes for facing gods around the world were supplemented and improved in the database as the Heroic Spirits chatted.

After stuffing a few Mora into the offering box, Lancermello walked back and saw Fujimaru Ritsuka standing under the sacred cherry tree and looking up at the treetops. The journey in Chaldea was too long, and they had forgotten many fragments that could only appear in daily life, just like the clear sky seen through the gaps between the cherry blossoms.

"It's so beautiful." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed softly, "Although it's different, it reminds me of the sky on that day - it's not that I haven't rested for a long time, but I just think that I haven't looked up at the sky again for a long time. It's not just me, everyone in Chaldea's 'Observatory' feels the same."

"Chaldea was not originally an observatory that looked up at the sky, but an observatory that looked down at the earth from the sky." Kirshtalia cast a hint of magic on the three people and mentioned the past of Chaldea. "But, perhaps it is because we have drifted for too long that we have forgotten why people looked up at the sky in the first place."

"Looking up at the sky is the instinct of all living things." Lansemero, who was parked under the eaves outside the Naruto Taisha Shrine, also looked up in the direction where Fujimaru Ritsuka was looking. "It is the same for all living things. Because - humans look up at the sky in order to one day be able to cross the sky and knock down the gods."

"May our destination be surrounded by rainbows and flowers." Fujimaru Ritsuka whispered a wish, then turned to look at the two people standing behind him, "Okay, it's time for us to go to the next place."

"Have you decided where to go next?"

"Let Senior Kirshtalia choose this time."

"…It should be about time now." Kirshtalia looked at the gradually darkening sky and decided on the next tourist spot for the three of them. "We'll go to Mondstadt's Star-Picking Cliff. I want to record the sky 'sea of ​​stars' that belongs to this world. Although we know that it is not a real sea of ​​stars, I still want to go and study it on the spot."

"Even in different worlds, different seas of stars will have the same scenery." After setting up the camera in an unmanned place, Kirshtalia looked up at the sea of ​​stars above their heads with his naked eyes, "Just like now, on the continent of Teyvat, we can also see a huge galaxy stretching across the entire sky."

"Indeed." Lanser-Mero sat on the soft grass, holding his wand and admiring the starry sky. He cast a soundproofing spell to block the voices of the couple on the Star-Picking Cliff. "I heard that Taigong Wang tried to observe my fate. The Seven Gods also have their own place in this starry sky. Don't be surprised."

"Did the deputy director see his own constellation when he was the flower god?" Fujimaru Ritsuka sat down next to Lancermello and looked at the scenery in the distance. "Is it the same as the current constellation or different?"

"It's different." Lansemello answered Fujimaru Ritsuka's question with a smile, recalling the past when the desert was still an oasis. "When I was still the goddess of flowers, it was Tenli who entrusted us to enter Teyvat, so all the identity details were completed by her - so the constellation at that time belonged to the goddess of flowers. After the death of the goddess of flowers, it naturally disappeared from the starry sky of Teyvat."

"My current constellation is related to the identity of 'Dreamless Tree King'—" Lanser-Mello glared at Kirshtalia, who turned her head to look at him with a subtle expression, and said seriously, "After all, my school of the Order Academy is registered with the Minglun School, so it's not strange that I would study the starry sky of Teyvat!?"

"No, I just remembered what happened in the clock tower in the past." Kirshtalia shook her head and explained what happened in the clock tower to Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had only heard scattered stories about Lancermello's past from the staff. "During the time when he was just out of the seal, the Lord appeared in the astronomy department as a teacher's disciple."

"I heard this from Dr. Roman!" Fujimaru Ritsuka answered Kirshtalia enthusiastically.

"Yes, the Lord is in name only as a teacher, but he actually attends classes in every subject - as long as there are classes." Kirshtalia continued to supplement Fujimaru Ritsuka's knowledge about the clock tower, as well as the news he learned from the Sumi Order before he merged with Lansermello, "and the Lord did the same in the Order here."

"Different disciplines in the Clock Tower study different magic, hoping to reach the source in their own unique way." Kirshtalia paused and introduced the six major schools of the Magisterium to Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Although they are called six major schools, in fact, just like the Clock Tower - in the long history of the Magisterium, scholars have made the six schools and six academies synonymous."

"Just like when we mention the astronomy department of the Clock Tower, we mention Animusphia. Animusphia is the monarch family of the astronomy department, and it also belongs to the astronomy department of the Clock Tower. Next, I will use the six schools to explain the main learning and research directions of the six colleges in the Ordinance Institute."

"Like the astronomy department 'Animusphia', which teaches branches such as astrology, celestial motion, and theology - but in short, it is the study of celestial bodies... or simply astronomy?" Fujimaru Ritsuka gave an example.

"That's it." Kirshtalia nodded and officially began to introduce the House of the Decrees. "The School of Life Theory is the largest and oldest school in the House of the Decrees. You should be able to understand what they study from the name, right? Simply put, all biological-related content is within their academic research scope."

"The Intellectual School regards language and writing as the essence and core of the world. I guess if they were told about the writing and language that the Lord mentioned before, they would definitely be able to write many papers." Kirshtalia sat down opposite Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Anything that can be linked to language and writing is within their research scope. Of course, this also includes runes."

"You can think of it as a school that studies all the languages ​​and scripts that have appeared in the world from ancient times to the present, including Runes and other things."

"Then there is the Minglun School that the Lord registered in the Council of the Church - this can be said to be the astronomy department of Teyvat, 'Animusphia'." Kirshtalia thought about the data on the Council of the Church stored in the Chaldean database before, complained casually, and then continued, "Dr. Roman recorded everything at the time, but the situation of the Council of the Church of the Church was not uploaded back to the database."

"They use the starry sky as their research center. They believe that the sky reflects the truth and writes destiny. They are committed to studying the relationship between the starry sky and the destiny of living beings. Well, the most interesting thing is the Lord himself." Kirshtalia smiled helplessly and explained to Fujimaru Ritsuka, "The Lord also attended classes in various subjects in the Ordinance Institute. Just like when he was in the clock tower in the past."

"I remember the teacher mentioned that once the necromancy department's 'Ulyphess' investigation even led to the Lord's head."